Re: Snow White's Nightmarish CGI Dwarfs

On Sat, 29 Mar 2025 22:51:58 -0400, Zhou Wei <[email protected]>
wrote:

>In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] wrote:
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>> https://youtu.be/0K34lo5Xll4?si=3DZ95qAdMSkMPcoE8g
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>Someone at Disney should've told Peter Dinklage that the dwarves in=20
>Snow White are not little people, they're mythological creatures that=20
>have existed for hundreds of years. Furthermore, they don't live in a=20
>cave, they work in a cave.

I have no plans to see the recent atrocity, but the original 1937
classic has "Dwarfs" not "Dwarves".

"Dwarves" was used by JRR Tokien using "Elves" as a model.  Perhaps
you are confusing his "Dwarves" with mythological "Dwarfs". Or perhaps
not. Apparently, this sort of thing became widespread in 2000. Perhaps
the news of PJ's films caused a lot of people to read JRRT.

Some humans are called "Dwarfs"; in this sense "Dwarfism" is a genetic
condition. Whether this use violates PC I have no idea.=20

I don't think it is clear that the Disney Dwarfs are mythological
Dwarfs, although they may well be, since this is, after all, a fairy
tale. I have no doubt that the recent live-action version botches this
badly -- the only real purpose of doing a live-action version appears
to be trashing the original animated film .

Some lawn decorations are called "Dwarfs". And there appear to be
several species of plants and animals which have "Dwarf" in at least
their popular, if not their scientific, name.=20
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